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Date: 02.11.2016 Last updated: 03.11.2016 at 13.45 Category: Corporate To coincide with the 80th anniversary of the launch of the first British television service by the BBC on 2 November 1936, BBC History has today launched a new microsite that provides the public with access to archive material from the early days of…

The other day my wife and I were watching BBC 4’s Nigel Slater’s Icing on the Cake (available on BBC iPlayer for the next three weeks) ‘a nostalgic and funny journey back in time exploring the earliest origins of cake in Britain …’ A part of the programme was devoted to the Clandestine Cake Club which describes itself as…

Now that the BBC’s 6 o’ Clock News is at 20:00 SAST and freely available on FilmOn I get to watch the programme a bit more often. I was watching last night when they included the following insert which is available here from YouTube. 25 years after starting my bookselling career in the UK,…

Today marks the 96th anniversary of the armistice that brought an end to the First World War. 2014 is of course the centenary of the outbreak of the war, and the BBC has a dedicated World War One TV & Radio website. Viewers within the UK (or those outside the UK using a UK VPN)…

Books Etc Blog Welcome! When I started the Books Etc website in January (2014) I tinkered with the idea of a blog, experimented a bit and put the idea to one side as, frankly, I hadn’t a clue what I was doing and the learning curve for this arts grad was a tad too…